Zillow, Trulia and other real estate search firms work to get inaccuracies, duplicates out of their data

Company President Howard “Hoby” Hanna said this in a YouTube video about the recent partnership with Zillow:

“Zillow, we will partner with you. We will send you a clean set of our data. We’ll make sure it’s fully enhanced, but we want the following in return: Number one, we want integrity of data. We want to work with you to make sure the data feed that you get is accurate, is in real time, that no longer will Zillow per our agreement take data from other places and other sources.”

On the other extreme, one San Diego brokerage is not playing ball with either Zillow or Trulia.

“This is about the long-term survival for all brokers,” Abbott said. “You cannot keep giving away what amounts to be your future business.”

And while there may be continued clash between industry pros and third-party sites, it appears everyone is attempting to make data more uniform and accurate for those who are seriously and not-so seriously interested in buying homes.

“Yes, we have inaccuracies, but far fewer than five years ago,” said Klein, of Point2. “Syndication is an evolution.”